Short Courses

Short Courses Overview

Each CARMA short course is typically a 20 hours session on a research method or data analysis topic. CARMA Short Courses place an emphasis on hands-on experience and on the application of the methodology aimed at skills development through equal amount of lecture and lab-time. Instructors are leading methodological scholars recognized within the organizational studies and management areas as experts on their topics. Several are current or past editors of leading organizational journals. A list of CARMA Short Courses includes introductory and advanced training on quantitative and qualitative topics, including content that might not be readily available at your institution. In addition, our short courses provide students and faculty with the opportunity to network with leading scholars and other students/faculty in their areas of interest. More than 1,200 faculty and students from universities throughout the world have attended CARMA Short Courses since the summer of 2004. Past locations of these courses include Virginia and Michigan in the United States, as well as Canada, Peru, Brazil, Australia, India, The Netherlands, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel, and China.

Upcoming Short Courses

We will be offering new Short Courses in our collection of upcoming courses, including Mixed Methods and quantitative courses on Within Person Research. Our other quantitative courses include sequences across both sessions on introductory/ advanced data analysis with R, introductory/advanced SEM, introductory/advanced multi-level analysis, big data and analysis of big data. Also available are courses that cover Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analysis, Bayesian Analysis, Advanced Regression Polynomial/Response Surface Methods, Web Scraping, Theory, Methods, and Analysis for Research with Dyads, and Questionnaire Design. Our qualitative offerings include new courses on Introduction to Ethnography, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Case Study Methods. Other qualitative courses cover Advanced Methods for Micro and Macro Management and Grounded Theory, Mixed Methods, and Qualitative Analysis for Organizational Change, Crafting High-Quality Research via a Phronetic Iterative Approach, Video Methods, and Content Analysis of Text. See below for specific courses and dates.

Live On-Line Short Courses

Our upcoming program will deliver the courses on-line via the CARMA Global Virtual Classroom using Zoom. These courses will be offered using a synchronous approach, with instructors providing live (video and audio) lecture and Q&A sessions. Instructors will also lead assignment sessions, during which participants can choose to join breakout rooms to collaborate with a small group of course-mates (using screen-share, video/audio communication, and/or text chat. There would be no recordings made by CARMA of the live sessions, and participants will not be allowed to record any sessions themselves. Unlike CARMA’s Webcast Program, which is based on group viewing, with our On-Line Short Courses only individual access and participation is allowed (no group viewing).

Our goal with our new on-line approach is to emulate as much as possible the in-person short course experience that we have used so successfully since 2001. We hope our on-line delivery will be more practical and economical for participants by allowing them to avoiding travel to locations beyond their community. For participants not familiar with use of Zoom, training will be provided at no-charge prior to the Short Courses. CARMA has considerable experience with live on-line events, and we look forward to extending our use of this delivery format through our Global Virtual Classroom to increase access to our highly-regarded Short Courses.

CARMA Short Course Evaluations

CARMA Short Courses Evaluation Results for January 20206 Session:

Rating Questions (out of 5)

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Open-Ended Questions

• The information was relevant and assisted me in becoming familiar with the use of R. The instructor answered questions, and even with the conclusion of the course has been a phenomenal resource. I will attend CARMA courses in the future for sure.
• The instructor was very knowledgeable about the topic. The order in which information is presented in the course was well-organized and conducive to learning. The instructor explained the differences and connections between various models very clearly and was patient and helpful when answering questions. It was a great course!
• The instructor is always patient in answering all the questions students have and provides quite a lot of suggestions and tips for us.
• I appreciated the opportunity to hear from someone who publishes with this type of data. We don’t cover this methodology in my methods courses, and for this being a crash course in designing and implementing them, it was very effective while not being overwhelming.
• The instructor was amazing and completely changed how I view qualitative research. I wish I could do more courses with them.
• I like how we had a mix of conceptual/theoretical discussion and practice coding data.
• The breadth of information provided and the level of detail. Taking this course has enabled me to get an appreciation of ML and NLP and brought me to a point where I can dig deeper into it as needed. The instructor was extremely knowledgeable, very passionate, and had enough projects of his own to address any question or issue raised in the class.
• I really like how applicable this course wa to my current research. I am excited to see more quantitative macro strategy CARMA short courses becoming available. The instructor did an excellent job. They were very knowledgeable and very patient with all the students’ questions.
• I really liked that it was so hands-on and at the same time conveyed deep theoretical approaches. Lots of very useful tools. The instructor was excellent. They created a great atmosphere that encouraged open discussion and made the group feel like they had met in person by the time the course ended. I learned a huge amount.
• It opened my mind to consider new ways of engaging with my data beyond the seeming conventions in qualitative research in business research.
• I think the course is really comprehensible and delivered at a great pace. The instructor makes the topic quite easy to follow. I appreciate the animation and the humor of the instructor, which contribute to the pace and the delivery of the course. The instructor is also open to questions and wants to utilize our class period.